Not gna read 2.6k comments on a near 5 year old vid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7sIgBpe6Co), but here's a solution to your breaking wires on just about anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5DshGGMTdU Time consuming but my wife has done it for all of her POS iphone cords and has saved us quite a bit of $ not having to replace those anymore.